THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 18C9.
LA ISO It VS. LAND.
Am Onxlftnsht lTPn thn FnjrIUh Arlnf orrnry by
An " fbe Workinuin'a Organ.
from th London Btthivt.
This monstrous evil which caps nil other
social and political evils that afllict our
country has grown tip and become hoary in
iU iniquities; plethorio with the wealth it has
unjustly accumulated; .and. swollen out and
overgrown with prido and insolent import-'
ance; and no wonder, when we consider that
it has fattened and battened, and ground
down and oppressed the people of these
realms for eight hundred years and upwards.
It had its origin ah most people know in
that great buccaneering raid which William
of Normandy made upon this conntry in lOtlti,
aided by soldiers and priests and a host of
dissipated adventurers which he , gathered
from all parts of Europe by his otters of
plunder; and who were filled with fiery zeal
for the conquest of our unhappy country
by a bnll from the Tope, a consecrated ban
ner, and a ring said to contain a hair of
St. Peter. "With this united band of fighting
adventurers, priests, and monks, William
succeeded in overcoming our Saxon ancestors;
and, after having established and consolidated
his power by confiscating, pillaging, burning,
and destroying in all directions, he finally
Earccllcd out the land of the country among
is rapacious followers, the noble-blooded an
cestors of Jour hereditary aristocracy. Not
that the line of this noble blood has been
preserved unbroken; for very many families
of them have risen, and fallen, and sunk in
oblivion; so that most of our present
nobility have been very recent creations; yet
from this plundering origin our hereditary
aristocracy sprang. The Conqueror, however,
wanted power and means to sustain him
in possession of his throne and his spoils;
and hence, in parcelling out the estates of the
country, he granted them on feudal tenure;
that is, he granted them conditionally, that
the holders should pay him service and tri
bute of various kinds; such as military ser
vice, or being compelled to arm themselves
and their tenantry in support of the Govern
ment when requested by the king; as also to
pay certain fines or sums of money, under
the names of aids, reliefs, wardships, etc.,
which were, as 151ackstoue says, "in the na
ture of a modern laud tax." The money
raised from this source, and from the crown
lands, or the estates the king kept for him
self, constituted at that time the only reve
nue of the kingdom; for tho people then paid
no taxes, they being serfs or laborers.
This, then, was the origin of our landed
aristocracy; men who were bound by their
tenure to defend the country, and to meet
the expenses of the nation in return for the
vast benefits they enjoyed; that of sharing
among them'the greater portion of the land
of the country They subsequontly succeeded,
however, in getting their military service
commuted for mone'; but this, and various
other payments they were compelled to make,
and continued to pay down' to tho time of the
restoration of Charles II, when tho Conven
tion Parliament entered iuto an agreement
with him that he should free them from all
the landed obligations which they had hith
erto paid for their estates, and that they
would present him and his successors with an
excise law. In other words, that he would
enable them, for this boon, to shift the
burden from their own shoulders on
to those of the people. Having thus,
for their own selfish ends, cut
off the principal source of revenue, and
having subsequently cajoled our rulers out of
the chief portion of the crown lands, there
were no means for the carrying on of the
government; so that in tho reign of William
the Third they were under the necessity of
imposing a land-tax of four shillings in the
pound on the full annual value of the land.
This, however, was too good a thing to be
continued, and our aristocracy now managed
to skirk. or to render it almost a nullity; for
in 17D8 they passed a law declaring that "the
land-tax should only be levied on the original
assessment of William the Third." So that,
taking into account the immense increase in
the value of land, the tax does not now amount
to a farthing in the pound; for if it were
assessed at its present value, at four
shillings in the pound it would realize a sum
of upwards of twenty-five millions; whereas,
the land tax raised in 18(58 amounted to only
il,0!)2,00r. But in the interim the excise
duties, which they imposed on the people,
have increased from about a million to up
wards of twenty millions, and the customs
and all other public burdens to a total of (!)
millions. With the possession of the land
they have possessed the control over the
tenantry, and the power of returning to what
ought to be the people's House, the majority
of their own tools and month-pieces, to do
their bidding, and to crush or retard all mea
sures made by the friends of the people in
favor of retrenchment or reform.
The possession of this power to pack the
House of Commons has placed the State also
at their disposal, and most of its offices have
been filled by our aristocracy or their nomi
nees; and fierce and savage have been their
attacks upon the few outsiders who have lately
obtained possession of places in the ministry.
The Church, too, has ever been a creature and
tool of .their own, and its bishops and clergy,
their brethren or relations, or their own no
minees or slavish dependants; for, in addition
to the vast estates of the Church which at diffe
rent times they have shnred among them, they
have now CJI."() Church livings to bestow on
whom they choose, and about nine or ten
millions of Church revenue to divide between
the persons they elect. The clergy and aristo
cracy have also got all the charities of Eng
land under their control, amounting to above
nineteen millions sterling. The army and
navy, also, are for the most part ruled and
officered by them; and all efforts to reduce
the enormous sum of about twenty-eight mil
lions paid annually to support them, are
strenuously opposed by the numerous repre
sentatives of these two services found in both
Houses of Parliament.
In fact, the aristocracy have ruled our
country for centuries; have divided all places
of profit or honor between the two factions
of them; have shared among themselves and
tools the greater portion of the revenue; have
warred against freedom at home and abroad;
have ever been the opponents of all measures
for the political and social elevation of our
people, and have contracted an enormous
debt which now bows down the industrial
energies and liinitB the trade and commerce
Cf f Via nnnnlrv Tn use the words of Gene
ral Fov. when he cave a definition of aris
tocracy in the French Chambers some years
ago: "They are the league and coalition of
those who wish to consume without pro
ducing, live without .working, occupy all
public plaoea without beooming competent to
fill them, and Beize upon all honors without
meriting them." . . , , ,
We ask, then, whether it is not opposed to
right and justice and the happiness of the
nation, that an exclusive and privileged few
should claim possession of the whole land of
the country? should have the power of pre
venting it from being properly cultivated by
refusing ikon security of tenure' should
hold large portions of it waste, or convert it
into hunting "grounds and game" preserves ?
should have power to clear it of its human in
habitants at pleasure, and make the tenantry
that hold and cultivate it their political
slaves ?
We further ask whether tho principle of
hereditary right is not a manifest injustice,
as it gives a foolish son a right to succeed a
wise father, and to thwart, by his obstinacy
or folly, the most just and righteous measures
that the best and wisest of our legislators may
propose for the security, enlightenment, pros
perity, and progress of the nation?
If our brethren concur with us in opinion
that our hereditary aristocracy has, been, and
continues to be, a blight and curse upon our
country, is it not high time to use every poli
tical power they possess to free themselves
from its withering influence ? Is it not time
to meet, urge, petition, and beseech our re
presentatives to do away with the monstrous
evils of primogenture and entail, and compel
our aristocracy to do justice to all their chil
dren? To limit by law the quantity of land
that should be held by individuals; and to
cause their immense estates to be divided
among their children on the death of the pos
sessors ? To end, also, the slavish custom of
the representatives of the whole nation
having every measure of importance for the
well being of the conntry frustrated by a non
represented and privileged few, they should
enact that any law passed twice through the
House of Commons should become the
law
the
01 ine land, wcatever otfier power
State may be opposed to it.
""statistical.
in
Tbe Ifcport of Snrnurl It. ltntiKlcsnt the Sta
tlniintl l'oiirt'M.
On the 10th instant, in the International
Statistical Congress at the Hague, Mr. Samuel
B. ltuggles, official delegate from the United
States of America, presented the following
report:
The duty was intrusted to the undersigned
as the delegate from the United States of
America to the Fif th International Statistical
Congress, held at Berlin in September, 1S3,
to present a report exhibiting under separate
heads, first, the territorial area; second, the
population; third, the value of property
assessed for tuxittion; and fourth, the gold
and silver bearing portions of the United
States with reference to tho public works of
intercommunication affecting those inte
rests. To avoid repetition, he now respect
fully asks to refer to that report, copies of
which are herewith furnished for tho more
convenient information of the presont Con
gress. The report now submitted will mainly
seek to bring forward to the present year,
WW, some of the statements made to the
Berlin Congress of liSGiJ, and also supply
some deficiencies in the report then presented.
It will seek to show more fully and precisely
the cereal product of the American Union as the
cardinal and doniinuut element in its material
resources, and also the relative importance of
that element when compared with the cereal
products of the nations of Europe, as a conti
nental unit, occupying a territorial area dif
fering in extent but little from that of the
United States. The broad continental rela
tions rapidly increasing between these two
important portions of the globe, interweaving
both in one common civilization, plainly ren
der it desirable, if not indispensable, that both
should be represented in the novel and im
portant series of international, or, more
properly 6peakiug, intercontinental Congress,
which has now reached its seventh session.
Whatever narrow or timid theories may have
been entertained in any portion of tho United
States, at earlier periods of its history, favor
ing a policy of isolation from the commerce
and civilization of Europe, they are
now fully abandoned. In every inter
national movement of humanity, seeking the
benefit of our common race, the New World
will bo found in full accord with tho
Old. In the great providence of God the Ame
rican continents, in the fulness of time, be
came the common receptacle of the overflow
ing population of Europe. That New World
fully recognizes its origin. The intervening
ocean, subdued by steam the monarch of
our age to the use of man, no longer
weakens but greatly strengthens the ties of
lineage, of religion, of literature, o(k science,
of commerce, and of all the varied interests,
moral and material, by which the two worlds
are now bound in one. The full solution of
the sublime problem of a wise Christian in
ternationally is to be the crowning achieve
ment of our nineteenth century. It can only
be solved through the instrumentality of
periodical meetings of the common family
of civilizod nations, fully represented
and freely interchanging their opinions
in a liberal and conciliatory spirit. The
Delegate of the United States of America, in
submitting tho report at Berlin, did not seek,
nor does he now seek, to attain the power ot
acute, scientific analysis, which so distin
tinguishes the learned statisticians of Europe;
but rather to sketch in outline the broad sta
tistical features, which may aid the Congress
in comprehending and denning the compara
tive importance, present and future, of the
two great continents of the Christian world.
For the purpose, then, of supplementing the
report to the Codltcss at Berlin, the under
signed respectfully presents the followin
statement of the cereal product of the United
States, to be considered in connection with a
comparative estimate of that of the nations of
Europe taken separately ana also in the ag
gregate. That estimate hns been made from
the Inchest olliciid sources within the reach
of the Government of the United States,
through its diplomatic officers in Europe.
It is now submitted with the request that
the experienced and learned delegates repre
senting the European Governments, may give
it thorough scrutiny and expose the errors, if
anv, which will tie promptly corrected in the
final report, to bo published in the Comple
Jtedau of tne congress.
I. C'EKEAL ritOIJCCT OF THE UNITED STATES.
The information officially collected and re
ported by the "Department of Agriculture" of
the united states snows tne proauct 01 cereals
for the years 18"0, IK(50, 1807, and 18(58 to
have been, in "Winchester bushels," as fol
lows:
1850.
18t,
18(57.
312,441,4110
1 ii;l,lK4,IHH
ai,7J7,0(iO
27M,7!,OtlO
2i,;U(,ouu
' 1SS8.
Wheat.. NXMiV-H
Kye 14.1xk.hi3
tiarley... 6,lti7,Ol6
Oats 146,6X4,179
K. Wheat b.ti.yi'J
In. Corn,
Muize..o92,O7!,104
173,101,924
294,0:13,600
22 ,n (4,10
:ll.liil,!WI
l:j,W),h!"
VW.i,l:i&
17,671,218
KW.7W.744 7(St,520,000 906,627,000
Total.... bo7,393,o7 1, 17,039.299 1,329,729,400 1,440,78(1,000
The decrease in Indian corn (or maize)
shown by the table from 1800 to 1807 was
caused bv the four vears of war from 1801 to
180.r, seriously disturbing the agricultural
operations in several of the btateu most
lai Relv producinu Indian corn.
The money value of the l,ai!),729, 400 bush
els or cereals produced m 1807 is otnciaiiy
stated by the Department of Agriculture to
be asi,'jH4,u:)7.(MK).
The increase of production in the nineteen
years from 1850 to 1808 (both inclusive) from
807,893,007 bushels to 1,450,780,000 bushels
is 582,:$!I2,0:j:J bushels, or 07 per cent.
If that rate of increase shall be maintained
for the next nineteen yearn, the yearly pro
duct in the year 18ts8 will raoh U,4i?2,Hi:i,(J2(
bssbels. The large immigration iuto tho
United States of European farmers seeking
cheap and fertile land may expedite that
result. On the other hand, it is not so im
possible that the people of the United States
may ere long follow the example of the people
of Great Britain and of France, and divert a
larger portion of their industry than at presont
from agriculture to manufacturing, mining,
or other pursuits. It is indeed desirable that
the surplus cereal product of the United
States should keep pace as nearly as may be
with any deficiency of supply in Europe.
Before the recent acquisition of Alaska the
territory of the United States wiw wholly
wi'.hin the temperate zone, and contained
l,t7!,l l;,ll!0 acres, at least three-fourths of
which is susceptible of agricultural cultiva
tion or use. '1 he present population, thinly
sprinkled over our continental area, has
hardly began to use it for agriculture, still
less to cultivate it with care. The acres in
cereals in the years 1H57 and 1HI18, as re
ported by tho Department of Agriculture, are
KB follows:
1W7. 1KB
InWhrat acres lHl.M lS.4;i',779
Kve, noref I 275 l.K il.ttJl
JiarLy, ac.rn 1,1:11.217 KC.J'H
Outs, acres I0,7lti.iM 9,tW,7 1
lim kwheat. ai r. f l.!127,si(l l,li:WJ
Indian Corn (Maize), acres !,42(',2tit 3I.SM,lu
Total acres 6,73S,344 tW.itiM'irt
The area now in cereals, if occasion shall
require, may readily be enlarged tenfold.
The agricultural returns for the United King
dom of Great Britain and Ireland published
in If 08 state the acres in cereals
In the United Kingdom In 18GS to be.
lu France In lwij
..ii,t!.sr.B
..39,S(H,tW)
u2,611,4!
In Prussia In isti7
Mr. Siisuuel B. Buggies, Delegate to the
Seventh International Statistical Congress,
held at the Hague, in September, 18(5!, sub
mits the following statement:
tOMPAHATlVE CF.I1EAL PRODUCT OF EUROrE AND
THE UNITED STATES.
"I
g'S v'l
? 5;
DAUONS.
ldiKftia
1,3J5,!23 l,3o,-137,6c0 22'1, M,4o7,5.W 7'1
(itichidiiiir)
I
r in. & l'olanu.
?rmany
Franco
Austria
Ur. rtr. iinrl Ir.
5.771.1C2
ISK.JW.lilrf
i7t;.4;x
i2,673,('(l3
S.HIo.ti'.H.
1,71(1.2 "
ii.?.2!i.l0H
4.!'40,d;il
2.."t(i,4i'4l
24,231, K(
1H.0 Iri,2 17
:4.!H7,M 1
;i1i-s4.4S
l,H7X.Sll
1.325.340!
o,uo0.l(00
12.1.0(1(1.
(W.4I1,
7l7.2!i")
fi71.0M,
3t;.:tuti,
7f.2'J0
67.434,
C00 Wfil
,iol 17'3
lK ji
,7ti ? ; h
,2i,i) i-r
20.IVX).
lux,:; i.
291.1S3.
113.0(1,
12V2so,
2.9(W,
2.3 'ri.
3,(,
1(i.l l
2.1'"),
noo
(KM
2-9
2'
7'7
4 4
4'3
06
1'4
14
3M
0-8
yi
(Ml
,2iW
,1100
,!(!
,.VS4i
,93'i:
,(lll!
,217 1
,WH
.22i
Sweden A Nor.
,000, U'l1
Denmark
Iwtliiiianils.. .
IScliriiini
Switzerland.. .
701 ItfS,
,119 K'3
,(i:2 l.:-o
.I'M! H'S
,lr ti'l
fH.i l ro1
2M 3:l,
t!,2C.
17,2(11,
IreUM,
22li.i9.
3U.M1,
l3tS.4.l!f
14.0MI,
9,3(lii,
130,000
ltniy
!'.-i,8(,
107,170,
n.21,
42.HJ.),
4.1'dO,
3,200,
50,000,
3'9
O'd
Sf'&iu
r ottucai
',2.M 7'7'
1'3
Koutiianiu
Serwu
) 2: 0
,iW) U'D
.llM 13 (I
.000 7'0i
,000 i 3'7
.0001 2'4
Kur. Turkey...
rtt t
,000 12'1
,000 4'S
Tot. ef Europe.
2t'ti,375,24 4,773,ort4,726 16'd 1,404,312,171
61
United States,
in li-nO
in lnt'rtl
in 1;H
23,101,P7o M4.0M.S2t M'3 97.3V,2'-W
31,145.1x6 l,2i:l.4iH,.1i,2 3V3 llS.ll,49l
ai.Ooo.OLm l,4v,44;t,i(m IM'O 217,0.13,(100
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U..11-. Cost. $1.0H8.tj04 i.
Realfatate 86,000-00
Jill8 receivable for insurance made 3Ua,4o'tf4
Balances due at agencies, premiums on marine
policies, accrued interest, and other debts due M
cah in draw;,. ;.v.:v.::v.::v':v:.:'.v8 4ia mwn
Sl,MT67'80
Thomaj.fi nnA
John C. Davis, '
B. UUUWUS,
Samuel K Stokos,
ilnnnri a R a
james u. Mnnd,
1 hemihlliiM I'.mMi..
nuury oinau,
William II I.nHl.
Joseph 11. Seal,
Ungli Craig,
I George U. Ioipor,
Henry O. Dallett, Jr.,
woun n. renrose.
Jacob P. Jones,
James Traquair,
Edward Darlington,
II. Jones Brooke,
James II. MoFarland,
Edward Latourcade,
joun u, Taylor,
ieorge w. Jiornannu,
Willinm ( 1 KmtllAn.
luaicou niivei.
Silencer Mcllvaine,
'. T. Morgan, Pittsburg,
John B. Semple, "
a u u
T 1. T, .
uosnua r. uyre.
TTT f 1 X 1H 11 1 1
IIFNRY LYLBURN?iSieNcraVIS' Vi-dent.
UENKY BALL, Assistant Seoretary. 10 6
1829.CH ARTElt PERPETUAL,
Fratllin Fire Insurance Company
Office, Nos. 435 and437 CHESNTJT St.
Assets Jan. lf 69f $2,677,37213
CAPITAL 8400,000 -00
ACX RI ED SUEPLU8 i fta'wa.7n
HUiMlUMS 1,193,843-43
UNSETTLED CLAIMS,
INCOME FOR 18C9,
oou,uuu.
Losses raia since 1829,ovGr $5,500,000
Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Liberal Terms.
1'be Company also issues Policies on Rents ofjbuildings
-WV. IHa.
DIRECTORS.
Alfred G. Baker, . Altred Fltler,
Samuel Grant, I Thomas Sparks,
George W. Richards. I William 8. Crant.
Isaao Lea, I Thomas 8. Ellis,
George 1' ales, Gnstavus S. Benson.
ftYSXZ S-.AKEK. President
JA8. W. MrATxslec8'
TllFODORJS M. KKGER, Assistant SecreUry. 8 9
i;
N 8 U K E AT HOME.
IN TBI i
Penn Mutual Life Insurance
COMPANY.
No. 921 CHESNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
AS.SETH, 83,000,000.
CHARTERED BY OUR OWN STATE.
MANAGED BY OUR OWN CITIZENS.
IiOSSES PROMPTIiY PAID.
POUC1EH ISSUED ON VARIOUS PLANS.
Application!! may be made at tlie Home Office, and
i at the Agencies throughout the State, a 18
JAM EH TRAOUAIR. .PRESIDENT
MAiHUEI. E. STOKES VICE-PRESIDENT
JOHN W. IIORNOR A. V. P. and ACTUARY
MORATIO M. STEPHENS BEORKj'AKY
S B U R Y
LIFE INSURANCE OOMPAWY
. LEMUKL BANGS, President
GEORGE KLLIOTT, Vice-President and Seoretarv
KMORY WoOLlNTOCK, Aotnar, reUr7,
A. E. M. PURDY. M. D.7Me utalXI.-.
Thomas T. Tanker,
John M Maria
Charlftu Kn.itfa.
I J. B. Upplncott,
James Long,
William Divine.
S. Morris Wain,
.., Ii ..... '
John A. Wright,
Arthur G. Comn,
uames Hunter.
XT la ut '
In the charupter of it Directors, eoonomv of man,-.
mm, ii. norne.
Kfni.reasonatileness of rates, PARTNkKSHIP Piiv
p DJiCLARINU DIVIDKNDsTno restriction in fntle
bvea, and absolute nonforfeiture of all uohoiai anrtJ
restrmtion of travel ter the first r, the ASBU"!? ydpr2
sunts a oombiuatioe of advantages offered bi
company. Policies issued in eformV nd' Ult
one-Lhird made when desired. " n 01
Special advantages ottered to clergymen.
lor ail farther information address '
JAM1UJ M. LONOAORH.
Omc& NoMOTl&,eTO
STRICTLY MUTUAL.
Provident Life and Trust Co.
OP PHILADELPHIA.
OFFICE, No. IH H. FOURTH STREET.
OrgmilKfed to promote UFB INSURANCE amnnm
members ot the Society of Friends. uong
Good risks of an; class accepted.
Policial liwued on approved plans, at the lowest
I President, SAMUEL R, BHIPLBY, .
VlCe-PrealdellL, WILLIAM C. LO.NGSTKETTT
Actuary, ROWLAND PARRY
; The advantage! offered by this Company are on.
I excelled. j gj
IIIE ENTERPRISE INSURANCE COMPANY
X OK PHI1.ADELPMIA.
Oflice 6. W. Corner FOURTH and WALNUT Str.
FIliE INSURANCE EXCLUSIVELY. otr8
rr.KPKTUAXi AJN'D x'B.HJt ruiaciua ISSUED
Cash Capital.... fif-fift- 00
I. Jfo.H'JVrt".
tu i) utit s n s.
F. Ratohford Starr. J- UrlntUm KrriQ.
Ta.T 1 1 a.' " I T.mu 1 ill v Te
Valhrn h ru r inP
John Rl. Atwood,
BeDjtixuin T. Trediok
Ooorife 11. Btuartt
vatiiuw m. vuurijnrri
Thomas H. Montcomery,
Jamee Aerteeo. "
UOUU A A. allUWUi aavi wvil.
This Company intor only flraivclaaa riaka, taklnc ba
pmiiully haxardoua riaka whtevar, soob M lavtoriai
Billl . muiAun (IT a DQ TJ. mm .
THOMAS 11. MONTGOMERY, Vioe-f
. ur II: , .....w u k: i-v
i Vice-President.
ALIUHHIJI VT. . J At...,
Ho
pH(ENIX INSURANCE COMPANY OF
INCOHPORArKlVw PERPETUAL.
No. 2U4 WALNUT Street, opposite the Exohanii
This Company insures fr or damage by
on liberal terms, on bnildinns, merohandise, fnraltnwi
etc.. ior limited periods, and permanently on buildin.. iS
deposit of premiums. ""Kiiif
' be )inpaiiy has been In active operation for mora th..
SIXTY YEARS, during which aU We hiS?n
promptl, adjusted -rs. bMa
JOI1D li. iiw.w, I ".wa.
if U. MahollV.
jhenjomin Kttlnir.
Tboiuas II Power.,
John T. Lewis,
William S. Grant,
Kobert W. learning,
Edmund I CaatiUoa.
Samuel Wilcox.
1. Clara v naruiu,
Jwreiice Lewis, J
Vr... SiOwisO. Norria.
JOllN R. WuuuJOUCB, President.
EaMCEIi WlXCOX, Secretary,
FINANOIAL..
A RELIABLE HOME INVESTMENT.
THE FIB ST MORTGAGE BONDS
0P TBI
Wilmington and Reading Railroad,
i
BEARING INTEREST
At SEVEN PEE CENT, in Currency,
PAYABLE APRIL AND OCTOBER, FREE OP
STATE AND UNITED STATES TAXES.
This road rnns through a thickly populated d
rich agricultural and mauuiactarlng district
For the present, we are offering a limited amount
oi the above Bonds at
85 CENTS AND INTEREST.
The connection of thin road with the Pennsylvania
and Reading Railroads insures It a large and remu
nerative trade. We recommend the bonds as the
cheapest llrst-class invtstment lu the market,
rar.i. rAirjTsn a co.,
BANKERS AND DEALERS IN GOVERNMENTS,
No. 36 SOUTH THIKD STREET,
9 4 1!8 31 PHILADELPHIA.
-yy E HAVE FOR SALE
SIX PER CENT. GOLD BONDS
i
OF TDK
ROCHESTER WATER WORKS CO.
DUE 1889.
PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST PAYABLE
IN GOLD.
INTEREST AT SIX PER CENT.
COUPONS MAY AND NOVEMBER.
For particulars apply to
LE HA YEN & BKO.,
BANKERS,
No. 40 South THIRD Street,
115 FHILADK UIA.
RANKING HOUSE
!
JAY C00KE & CO.,
Nob, 112 and 114 South THIRD Street.
PHILADELPHIA,
Dealers In all Government Securities.
Old 6-20B Wanted In Exchange for New.
A Liberal Difference allowed.
Compound Interest Notes Wanted.
Interest Allowed on Deposits.
COLLECTIONS MADE. STOCKS bought Ad sold
on Commission.
Special business accommodations reserved for
ladles..
We will receive applications for Policies of Life
Insurance In the National Ltfo Insurance Company
ef the United States. Full Information given at our
oflice. 7 1 8m
xz. XL JAivxisou a co.,
SUCCESSORS TO
P. F. KELLY & CO.,
Hankers and Dealers In
Gold, Silver, aM GoTernment BonrJs,
AT CLOSEST MARKET RATES,
N.W. Corner THIRD and CHESNUT Sts.
Special attention given to COMMISSION ORDERS
In New York and Philadelphia Stock Boards, etc
etc. 6Btl3 81'
gLLIOTT & DUNN,
. . BANKERS, '
NO. 109 SOUTli THIRD STREET,
PHILADELPHIA,
DRAW RILLS OF EXCHANGE ON THE UNION
i BANK OB" LONDON.
DEALERS IN ALL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES,
GOLD, BILLS, Eto.
Receive MONEY ON DEPOSIT, allowing interest.
. Execute orders for Stocks in Philadelphia, New
York. Boston, and Baltimore. 4 26
QLENDINNING, DAVIS & CO.,
! NO. 48 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
GLENDINNING, DAVIS & AMORT,
i
NO. 2 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK
j BANKERS AND BROKERS.
Direct telegraphio communication with the New
York Stock Boards from the Philadelphia Onlce. 18 tt
QITY WARRANTS
! BOUGHT AND SOLD.
C. T. YERKES. Jr., & CO.,
. NO. 20 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
i
9 . rnnjLDELrniA
FINANOIAL.
LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD CO.'S
BONDS, '
OF THE ISSUE OF 1863,
BEARING 6 PER CENT. INTEREST,
AND SUBJECT TO TAXES,
Are Exchangeable for New Bonds,
BEARING 6 PER CENT. INTEREST,
AND FREE FROM TAXES.
A LIMITED AMOUNT OF
Pennsylvania and New York Canal
and Railroad Co.'i
SEVEN PER CENT. BONDS
IS OFFERED AT
Ninety-One and One-Half Per Cent.
CHARLES C. LONGSTRETH,
Treasurer Lchlah Valley Railroad Co.,
1 9K4p No. 80S WALNUT Street.
gftfllTH, RANDOLPH & CO.,
; BANKERS, '
PHILADELPHIA AND NEW YORK,
DEALERS IN UNITED STATES BONDS, and MEM
BERS OF STOCK AND GOLD EXCHANGE,
Receive Acaounts of Banks aud Bankers on Liberal
Terms.
ISSUE BILLS OF EXCHANGE ON
a J. HAMBRO SON, London.
B. METZLER, 8. SOHN A CO., Frankfort.
JAMES W. TUCKER A CO., Paris.
And Other Principal cities, and Letters of Credit
latf Available Throughout Europe.
P. S. PETERSON & CO.,
, Stock and Exchange Brokers,
NO. 39 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
Members of the New York and Philadelphia Stock
and Gold Boards.
STOCKS, BONDS, Etc., bought and sold on cora
mlgHlon only at either city 26
J PATENTS.
OFFICES FOR PROCURING PATENTS
! FORREST BUILDINGS,
No. 119 S. FOURTH STREET, PHILA,,
And Mirble Buildings,
No. 460 SEVENTH Street, opposite U. S. Patent
' Office, Washington, D. C
II. HOWSON,
I Solicitor of Patents.
C. HOWSON,
Attorney at Law.
Communications to be addressed to the Principal
Olllce, Philadelphia. 9 17 1m
PATENT OFFICES,
I N. W. Corner FOURTH and CHESNUT,
j (Entrance on FOURTH street).
FliArJCIS D. FASTORXTJ3,
SOLICITOR OF PATENTS.
Patents procured for iaventions In the United.
States and Foreign Countries, and all business re
latlng to the same promptly transacted. Call or send
for circulars on Patents.
Open till 9 o'clock every evening. s 6 smthS
P A T E IM T OFFICES,
N.' W. Corner F0UETH and WALNUT,
PHILADELPHIA. '
FEES LESS THAN ANY OTHER RELIABLE
AGENCY.
Send for pamphle on Patents. '
S 4 tlistnS
CHARLES H. EVANS.
STATE RIGHTS FOR SALE. STATE
Rivtits of a vulmihle Invention juat nntrnted, and for
the KLltlAO, CUTJ IHli, and DHIFPLNU of dried beef,
cabbage, etc., are hereby offered for sale. It is an article
of Bieut, value to proprietors of hotels and restaurants,
and it should be introduced into every family. KTATre
KHiHTSforaule. Model can be seen at TKLEOKAPll
OFHCK, COUfKK'S POlKT. N.J.
6 j7tf MUWDY HOFFM AW
I 11 .i.i . :
CARPENTERS ANO BUILDERS.
R. THOMAS dL CO.,
i dbalbrs m
Doors, Blinds, Sash, Shutters
WINDOW FRAMES, ETC.,
M. W. OORKKB OF
EIGHTEENTH and MARKET Streets
915 8m
PHILADELPHIA.
rjV H
E PRINCIPAL DEPOT
FOR THE BALI OP '
R EV ENUE STAMPS
' No. 804 CHESNUT STREET.
CESTRAL OFFICE, No. 105 S. FIFTH STREET,
! ' (Two doors below Chesnut street)
j ESTABLISHED 1819.
Hie Rale of Revenue stamps is still, continued at
the Old-EHtitblinhed Agencies.
The stock comprises every denomination printed'
by the Oovernmeut, and having at all times a large
supply, we are enabled to 1111 and forward (by Mail or
Express), all orders Immediately upon receipt a
matter of great Importance. '
I'nited Btates Notes, National Bank Notes, Draftf
on Philadelphia, and Post Oltlce Orders received la
payment.
Any Information rcpardlng th decisions of the
Commissioner of Internal Reveuuo cheerfully and
gratuitously furnished.
Revenue 6tamps printed upon Drafts, Checks
Reix'lpts, etc.
The following rates of commission are allowed on
Stamps and Stamped Paper:
On 25 and upwards
100 "
" 800 "
AUdresa all orders, etc., to
3 per cent.
8 "
4 "
STAMP AGENCY,
No. 304 CHESNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA
I